Example sentences of "attempts [verb] [pers pn] into " in BNC.
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| 1 | This peculiar quality of solid , clenched abstraction appears in phrase after phrase — " compactness " dwells within the " " compression " " of Horatian metres ; but as soon as a translator attempts to transpose him into English quatrains , things go askew and adrift , because every compression is paid for with an expansion . |
| 2 | If the bat 's brain hears an echo from another bat 's cry , and attempts to incorporate it into the picture of the world that it has previously built up , it will make no sense . |
| 3 | Her family and friends made many attempts to draw her into public life , including offering the sub-editorship of a literary magazine , but these were all rejected . |
| 4 | We might as well both be invisible , she told herself with irritation , conveniently forgetting Luke 's earlier attempts to draw her into the conversation . |
| 5 | Brezhnev responded with an appeal for the Great Powers to adopt certain norms in relations with Third World states including respect for the status of non-alignment chosen by them and abstention from attempts to draw them into military-political blocs of powers . |
| 6 | In spring 1981 Brezhnev responded with his formal proposal for the West to accept certain norms in relations with the Third World , including respect for their status of non-alignment and ‘ abstention from attempts to draw them into military-political blocs of powers ’ . |
| 7 | Suddenly , cheekily she spun round in front of him , mocking his attempts to turn her into an Anglo-Irish lady . |
| 8 | The political implication is that blacks should be self-assertive and proud of their black identity and not rely on well-meaning attempts to assimilate them into white society . |
| 9 | The Turks might try to tax , or offer administrative salaries to Zuwaya who were willing to participate in government ; but Zuwaya always resisted these attempts to bring them into the reach of government . |
| 10 | But it is a deeply conservative trade which has resolutely resisted most attempts to bring it into the twentieth century , to make it more efficient , or to make access to the law more available to the ordinary citizen . |